Serafim Leite Quotes & Sayings

I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing. — Ray Bradbury

It is an unfortunate thing for the Christian to be melancholy. If there is any man in the world that has a right to have a bright, clear face and a flashing eye, it is the man whose sins are forgiven him, who is saved with God's salvation. — Charles Spurgeon

Don't lose yourself, don't let yourself be lost, he said, and these were unexpected, enigmatic words that did not seem to fit the occasion. — Jose Saramago

The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind. — Rene Dubos

A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it — George Clymer

Please remember: things are not what they seem. — Haruki Murakami

Give me safety, or give me death. — John Stossel

Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life
an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars. — Mary Tyler Moore

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. — Carl Sandburg

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is. — Rebecca Stead